Eco Oil & Gas Ltd has announced the dates for public meetings to discuss the environmental clearance certificate (ECC) application required for the grant of a drilling permit for an offshore “Cooper” Block (PEL30) in Namibia’s Walvis Oil Basin
The company has published invitations in the Namibian press for public meetings which will be taking place on 18 July 2018 at the Hilton Hotel in Central Windhoek and on 20 July 2018 at the Protea Hotel by Marriot in Walvis Bay.
During the course of these public hearing sessions, interested and affected parties will be invited to submit their comments, inputs and objections for the proposed well operation on Osprey Prospect.
Colin Kinley, chief operating officer and director of Eco Atlantic, commented, “These public hearing meetings are essential to our progress and we look forward to presenting our exploration plans to the local community.”
As announced on 2 November 2017, Eco filed for an EEC drilling permit on the Cooper Block to further explore the Osprey Prospect. It has since appointed Risk-Based Solutions CC (RBS), as environmental consultants to undertake the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Environmental Management Plan (EMP) to support Eco’s ECC Application.
Furthermore, RBS has also been further instructed to obtain all the other pre-drilling, drilling and post-drilling consents, endorsements, permits, authorisations and certification for drilling operation.
All of these prerequisites to obtaining the ECC have successfully been completed and the conclusions of these reports will be presented in a presentation.
